happy lupercalia everyone “European music is based on the artificial sound of the note and the (tone) scale; it opposes the brutal and objective sonority of the world. As a result of an unbreakable convention European music is obliged from the beginning to express a subjectivity. It seems to fight the sonority of the outside world, like a sensitive being resisting the...

a performance with a set of replica of Luigi Russolo‘s Intonarumori in occasion of MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture February 20 – June 12, 2016 at the Vancouver Art Gallery And HERE you can find more link about Russolo and all. Performers/Intonarumoristi ; ) Kedrick James, Jules Lavern, Giorgio Magnanensi, Mariah Mennie, George Rahi Thank you to Martin Gottfrit who curated the Intonarumori Series...

I like this instagram clip by Anita. Yes, …still doing the “same thing!” (with François Houle, the PAO and the Lions Gate Youth Orchestra). …though never the same ; ) Saturady Jan. 30 • Centennial Theatre, great sonic dreams and reveries six sounds objects is not a piece of music, is about the energy and sheer beauty of a large group of people playing with...

BENT: A Showcase of Circuit Bending at VIVO Saturday, November 7th . Doors at 7pm. Featuring over 15 artists/hackers and musicians, this evening is a showcase of Vancouver artists and makers exploring the art of circuit bending. There will be a circuit playground, a “Show and Tell” of different projects, and performances throughout the evening. …a nice reunion, ten year later… Shawn Cashin, Kedrick James,...

Thank you Lee for the great video! Noise in the Key of D On a beautiful summer evening members of VEE (Vancouver Electronic Ensemble) gathered in the spaciousness of the VCC Atrium to make noise in the key of D, at the suggestion of Matt O’Donnell. Players arranged themselves throughout the space, utilizing multiple balconies over 3 levels and a large main...

Another fun plot* of circles and squares (spheres & cubes) plus some noisy characters, on the Tektronix. This is for David Henderson-Hean, and hopefully he’ll see it live in action soon. Audio is directly from the room, so not really great. *) Two separate stereo channels overlapping on the CRT of a Tektronix 564 ...

The enhanced drone of my hotel room at 4am interiority… I believe that’s about the inability to talk about the things we wish we could but we can’t really express; things we try to express, communicate, project in a sentimental way, where sentimentality doesn’t really represent the inexplicable and it’s just a faint illusory form of it. What I’m trying...

Friend viola player John Kastelic will be on the Coast this weekend. We are going to have an earthy and sounding evening. The Gumboot Café • Roberts Creek Saturday, April 25 • 8pm beardy John and his Brother Tony (No Mothers) ...

art signified I’m very happy I’ll be playing again with the great Kenton Loewen On October 4 • PSYCHFEST at Red Gate • after 10pm Though, make sure to check it all as psych fest will go on day and night with a fantastic lineup of great sound-psyched people Here is Sab Kay‘s great poster ...

Here is another theatre for the ear with some frantic noises and stuttering beats. I love the animated plots of these useless waves, they remind me of continuously avoiding to assert “a” will, or any formal path, relying instead on the bare existence and presence of sound and light: the audible and fluid immanence of being and time. For Nancy Lanthier’s listening eyeballs ;...

Geoffrey Smedley is a fantastic artist living on Gambier Island, very near where I live. A wonderful man of wondrous skills and fantastic vision. Finally he is online with a great website. “I am not alone in thinking that one can only know, understand, and take possesion of that which one has oneself made.” (Geoffrey Smedley) Geoffrey’s work is not only beautiful but...

Extreme modding of Astrocade ROMs. It must be an age thing that make me love the rawness of these pixels so much; but if you need more virtuality, put on a pair of RED & CYAN 3D glasses and project it on any large/not flat surface available, with very loud and diffused sound. ...

noise in the key of D • live recording NOISE IN THE KEY OF D MIX [Download] Thank you Dave Leith and Andrew Scott for the live recordings. And thank you Matt O’Donnell for the wonderful Sitar playing and all VEE for the great drony 2 hours and 14 minutes at the grand space of the VCC Atrium. The recording though is very...

Morton Feldman and Iannis Xenakis In conversation (for full text click the title above) excerpt: […] Xenakis: There are three reasons why I use quarter-tones. The first reason is to enrich the sound with the beats that they produce and with the impossibility to distinguish pitches when they are very close, especially when you have many string instruments because they are able...

…scratching a tape head on a bunch of old discarded tapes, a broken HD, CD player and transformers. Remix ad libitum using the first file (tapehead Amix) as the main track, or as you like… 🙂 tapehead Amix [Download] tapehead Bmix [Download] tapehead Cmix [Download] tapehead D CDmix [Download] tapehead E statics mix [Download] ...

Still having fun with VICE. Here is a series of images produced by loading short aiff files in VICE C64 emulator. Below the image gallery a short video showing the image produced in the emulator when loading the audio file you hear in the video. ...

loading random ROMs and other (audio, font, pdf and image) files in VICE Commodore Emulator Here is a short audio sample sample 38 [Download] This is how it looks in an audio editor …and how it looks when loaded in VICE another gallery here ...

While in Halifax next week I’ll be presenting a circuit bending workshop at The Centre For Art Tapes (CFAT). Here some toys I’ll be bringing there. Hidden under La Dictée Magique (French version of the Speak & Spell) Nicolas Collins’ great book Handmade Electronic Music. CIRCUIT BENDING WORKSHOP WITH GIORGIO MAGNANENSI Circuit bending is the art of creatively short circuiting audio electronics in order...

In this soundscape installation, recorded sounds from the Sechelt Gravel Pit have been “sculpted”, remixed and layered to create a drone-like sound object broadcasted on a 4-speaker setup. Both the framing and the specific context of this project become the relevant aspect of the not-assertive quality of any possible “message”. Listening here is not about any sentimental reception. The immediate and mediated reality of the place exists in...

I have been asked a few times in the past weeks why I think is important to present these forms of sonic (but not only audio) explorations. One of the reasons why I think is important to pay attention to this kind of activity is that hacking and circuit-bending – like exploring – are the glitchy metaphors resonating with John Cage’s invitation to embrace...

met Marco tonight, in Bologna. Marco: ansia, rumore, sogno mp3 [Download] All what we did together was only about this simple triad. Not any mystical, sacre or spiritual one, not any sentimental enflation of ego or bloody hearts. Reading this again. Substitute novel with sound, noise, musics…minz&maunz...

A-Musik and friends ¡El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido! is a great songs of the Nueva Cancion Chilena movement. The music of the song was composed by Sergio Ortega and the text written by Quilapayún. Composed and recorded in June 1973 just three months before September 11, 1973. Another 9/11, when CIA acted and supported the Pinochet bloody coup that destroyed the Chilean dream and Salvador Allende’s together with the...

Object of Thought mp3 [Download] “… Is it possible to take self-reflexivity to the point of positive feedback while making a commodity out of my intellect? Can this process help me to understand how I am objectified by capitalism? This is a very difficult question, as I am using English which firstly, is not my mother tongue, and secondly is the language more...

for ukulele, cello and live electronics you can listen a piece I did in preparation of the concert HERE Music On Main • modulus festival Saturday, October 2, 2010 Get to know a bright new musical talent when Music on Main introduces Chris Morano, the first artist chosen for the new Emerge on Main programme. Chris will play a stunnigly virtuosic programme of rarely...

Noise not Noise Western Front, March 27, 2010 Kedrick James voice & electronics, Chad MacQuarrie electric guitar, Giorgio Magnanensi fyrall & live electronics mp3 [Download] [INSPIRATION 1] “European music is based on the artificial sound of the note and the (tone) scale; it opposes the brutal and objective sonority of the world. As a result of an unbreakable convention European music is obliged from the...

for Kedrick James Kedrick James voice, Giorgio Magnanensi maxmorphine mp3 [Download] Kedrick is first and foremost a great friend, a great poet and sound/noise/voice performer. Check his and Donald Klassen’s work here: The Emetics ...

LABORATORIO LABORATORIO Arts Society is a non-profit arts organization based on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. LABORATORIO’s mandate is to foster art works in which actual dialogical experiences (i.e., dialogues of various kinds) take place. By acknowledging the importance of dialogic modalities of art, LABORATORIO wishes to promote new aesthetic values such as creative improvisation, interactivity and real-time remote interaction. LABORATORIO springs from...